Truth be told, the UFC’s welterweight division might be the most wide-open and competitive division in the world if it wasn’t for that pesky Georges St-Pierre beating everyone up all the time.
The amount of talent in the division is almost overwhelming when you actually take the time to sit down and look at the roster, and it is actually a bit sad that so many talented fighters have been denied a UFC title due to St-Pierre’s dominance.
For the purpose of this article, let’s pretend that GSP has either dropped to lightweight, moved up to middleweight to fight Anderson Silva, retired, moved on to play Jason Bourne in a new series of action films or started a waffle house in Canada somewhere.
Either way, he’s not here.
With that, the best way to decide a new champion is obviously an old-school Pride-style Grand Prix.
So sit back, enjoy if you’re so inclined, and if you feel the need to blast me in the comments, please don’t do it because of the seeding.